Because this is a family newspaper, I cannot quote the piquant term that Brandon Herrera, a Republican House candidate in Texas, used to refer to children in a 2023 video. I can only report that he called them "trophies" for getting a man to ejaculate. Nor, alas, am I allowed to repeat the obscenities that Herrera, a gun influencer, used to explain why the opinions of mothers are without value. I can only say that he argued, essentially, that getting pregnant requires no special skill.

Two weeks ago, before a fundraiser that House Speaker Mike Johnson was holding for Herrera, The Austin American-Statesman reached out to Herrera's campaign about these resurfaced comments. Herrera's team responded with a crude visual pun that, once again, is too vulgar for me to describe here.

I can, however, tell you about the Nazi and eugenics stuff. In a 2022 video, Herrera and a buddy in sunglasses and a balaclava tested a Nazi-era submachine gun, then goose-stepped to a Nazi marching song. Herrera called the weapon "the original ghetto blaster." In a 2024 podcast, after calling for abolishing Social Security, he joked that we should also "abolish old people," laughing along as his co-hosts riffed about killing them off as in the cult horror film "Midsommar."

Herrera became the Republican nominee in his south Texas district in March after Rep. Tony Gonzales........

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